edgar hoover across 48 years of directorship of the fbi and a man known to have a penchant for secrecy did not squirrel away a total of 33,000 pages of secret files. scholar also cautioned us about the actual volume of records that will become public after march 26th. >> i will believe what's released, i think, when you see what's released. because there are all kinds of technical categories of release. for example, a document is released even if -- it's considered released even if one line of it is unredacted and the rest remains blacked out. >> reporter: one interesting fact here, both former president clinton and the incumbent, president barack obama, had to sign off on the release of those 20-25,000 pages that are going to become public sometime after march 26th, martha. martha: well, folks would be interested in this even if there wasn't the possibility of hillary clinton running for president, but now that there is, they will have an even more interest in, take an interest in seeing those. james, thank you very much. >> reporter: thank you. ♪ bill: there are new questions being